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Debugging hibernation and suspend
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(C) 2007 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, GPL
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1. Testing hibernation (aka suspend to disk or STD)
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To check if hibernation works, you can try to hibernate in the "reboot" mode:
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# echo reboot > /sys/power/disk
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# echo disk > /sys/power/state
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and the system should create a hibernation image, reboot, resume and get back to
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the command prompt where you have started the transition. If that happens,
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hibernation is most likely to work correctly. Still, you need to repeat the
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test at least a couple of times in a row for confidence. [This is necessary,
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because some problems only show up on a second attempt at suspending and
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resuming the system.] Moreover, hibernating in the "reboot" and "shutdown"
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modes causes the PM core to skip some platform-related callbacks which on ACPI
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systems might be necessary to make hibernation work. Thus, if your machine fails
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to hibernate or resume in the "reboot" mode, you should try the "platform" mode:
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# echo platform > /sys/power/disk
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# echo disk > /sys/power/state
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which is the default and recommended mode of hibernation.
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Unfortunately, the "platform" mode of hibernation does not work on some systems
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with broken BIOSes. In such cases the "shutdown" mode of hibernation might
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work:
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# echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
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# echo disk > /sys/power/state
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(it is similar to the "reboot" mode, but it requires you to press the power
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button to make the system resume).
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If neither "platform" nor "shutdown" hibernation mode works, you will need to
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identify what goes wrong.
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a) Test modes of hibernation
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To find out why hibernation fails on your system, you can use a special testing
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facility available if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_PM_DEBUG set. Then,
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there is the file /sys/power/pm_test that can be used to make the hibernation
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core run in a test mode. There are 5 test modes available:
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freezer
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- test the freezing of processes
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devices
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- test the freezing of processes and suspending of devices
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platform
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- test the freezing of processes, suspending of devices and platform
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global control methods(*)
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processors
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- test the freezing of processes, suspending of devices, platform
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global control methods(*) and the disabling of nonboot CPUs
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core
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- test the freezing of processes, suspending of devices, platform global
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control methods(*), the disabling of nonboot CPUs and suspending of
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platform/system devices
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(*) the platform global control methods are only available on ACPI systems
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and are only tested if the hibernation mode is set to "platform"
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To use one of them it is necessary to write the corresponding string to
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/sys/power/pm_test (eg. "devices" to test the freezing of processes and
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suspending devices) and issue the standard hibernation commands. For example,
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to use the "devices" test mode along with the "platform" mode of hibernation,
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you should do the following:
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# echo devices > /sys/power/pm_test
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# echo platform > /sys/power/disk
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# echo disk > /sys/power/state
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Then, the kernel will try to freeze processes, suspend devices, wait 5 seconds,
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resume devices and thaw processes. If "platform" is written to
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/sys/power/pm_test , then after suspending devices the kernel will additionally
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invoke the global control methods (eg. ACPI global control methods) used to
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prepare the platform firmware for hibernation. Next, it will wait 5 seconds and
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invoke the platform (eg. ACPI) global methods used to cancel hibernation etc.
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Writing "none" to /sys/power/pm_test causes the kernel to switch to the normal
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hibernation/suspend operations. Also, when open for reading, /sys/power/pm_test
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contains a space-separated list of all available tests (including "none" that
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represents the normal functionality) in which the current test level is
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indicated by square brackets.
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Generally, as you can see, each test level is more "invasive" than the previous
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one and the "core" level tests the hardware and drivers as deeply as possible
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without creating a hibernation image. Obviously, if the "devices" test fails,
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the "platform" test will fail as well and so on. Thus, as a rule of thumb, you
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should try the test modes starting from "freezer", through "devices", "platform"
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and "processors" up to "core" (repeat the test on each level a couple of times
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to make sure that any random factors are avoided).
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If the "freezer" test fails, there is a task that cannot be frozen (in that case
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it usually is possible to identify the offending task by analysing the output of
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dmesg obtained after the failing test). Failure at this level usually means
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that there is a problem with the tasks freezer subsystem that should be
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reported.
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If the "devices" test fails, most likely there is a driver that cannot suspend
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or resume its device (in the latter case the system may hang or become unstable
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after the test, so please take that into consideration). To find this driver,
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you can carry out a binary search according to the rules:
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- if the test fails, unload a half of the drivers currently loaded and repeat
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(that would probably involve rebooting the system, so always note what drivers
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have been loaded before the test),
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- if the test succeeds, load a half of the drivers you have unloaded most
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recently and repeat.
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Once you have found the failing driver (there can be more than just one of
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them), you have to unload it every time before hibernation. In that case please
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make sure to report the problem with the driver.
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It is also possible that the "devices" test will still fail after you have
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unloaded all modules. In that case, you may want to look in your kernel
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configuration for the drivers that can be compiled as modules (and test again
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with these drivers compiled as modules). You may also try to use some special
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kernel command line options such as "noapic", "noacpi" or even "acpi=off".
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If the "platform" test fails, there is a problem with the handling of the
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platform (eg. ACPI) firmware on your system. In that case the "platform" mode
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of hibernation is not likely to work. You can try the "shutdown" mode, but that
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is rather a poor man's workaround.
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If the "processors" test fails, the disabling/enabling of nonboot CPUs does not
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work (of course, this only may be an issue on SMP systems) and the problem
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should be reported. In that case you can also try to switch the nonboot CPUs
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off and on using the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online sysfs attributes and
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see if that works.
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If the "core" test fails, which means that suspending of the system/platform
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devices has failed (these devices are suspended on one CPU with interrupts off),
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the problem is most probably hardware-related and serious, so it should be
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reported.
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A failure of any of the "platform", "processors" or "core" tests may cause your
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system to hang or become unstable, so please beware. Such a failure usually
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indicates a serious problem that very well may be related to the hardware, but
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please report it anyway.
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b) Testing minimal configuration
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If all of the hibernation test modes work, you can boot the system with the
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"init=/bin/bash" command line parameter and attempt to hibernate in the
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"reboot", "shutdown" and "platform" modes. If that does not work, there
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probably is a problem with a driver statically compiled into the kernel and you
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can try to compile more drivers as modules, so that they can be tested
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individually. Otherwise, there is a problem with a modular driver and you can
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find it by loading a half of the modules you normally use and binary searching
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in accordance with the algorithm:
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- if there are n modules loaded and the attempt to suspend and resume fails,
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unload n/2 of the modules and try again (that would probably involve rebooting
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the system),
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- if there are n modules loaded and the attempt to suspend and resume succeeds,
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load n/2 modules more and try again.
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Again, if you find the offending module(s), it(they) must be unloaded every time
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before hibernation, and please report the problem with it(them).
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c) Advanced debugging
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In case that hibernation does not work on your system even in the minimal
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configuration and compiling more drivers as modules is not practical or some
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modules cannot be unloaded, you can use one of the more advanced debugging
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techniques to find the problem. First, if there is a serial port in your box,
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you can boot the kernel with the 'no_console_suspend' parameter and try to log
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kernel messages using the serial console. This may provide you with some
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information about the reasons of the suspend (resume) failure. Alternatively,
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it may be possible to use a FireWire port for debugging with firescope
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(ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/firescope/). On x86 it is also possible to
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use the PM_TRACE mechanism documented in Documentation/power/s2ram.txt .
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2. Testing suspend to RAM (STR)
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To verify that the STR works, it is generally more convenient to use the s2ram
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tool available from http://suspend.sf.net and documented at
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http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Suspend_to_RAM.
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Namely, after writing "freezer", "devices", "platform", "processors", or "core"
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into /sys/power/pm_test (available if the kernel is compiled with
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CONFIG_PM_DEBUG set) the suspend code will work in the test mode corresponding
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to given string. The STR test modes are defined in the same way as for
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hibernation, so please refer to Section 1 for more information about them. In
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particular, the "core" test allows you to test everything except for the actual
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invocation of the platform firmware in order to put the system into the sleep
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state.
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Among other things, the testing with the help of /sys/power/pm_test may allow
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you to identify drivers that fail to suspend or resume their devices. They
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should be unloaded every time before an STR transition.
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Next, you can follow the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/s2ram to test
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the system, but if it does not work "out of the box", you may need to boot it
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with "init=/bin/bash" and test s2ram in the minimal configuration. In that
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case, you may be able to search for failing drivers by following the procedure
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analogous to the one described in section 1. If you find some failing drivers,
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you will have to unload them every time before an STR transition (ie. before
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you run s2ram), and please report the problems with them.
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There is a debugfs entry which shows the suspend to RAM statistics. Here is an
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example of its output.
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# mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
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# cat /sys/kernel/debug/suspend_stats
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success: 20
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fail: 5
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failed_freeze: 0
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failed_prepare: 0
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failed_suspend: 5
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failed_suspend_noirq: 0
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failed_resume: 0
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failed_resume_noirq: 0
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failures:
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last_failed_dev: alarm
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adc
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last_failed_errno: -16
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-16
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last_failed_step: suspend
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suspend
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Field success means the success number of suspend to RAM, and field fail means
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the failure number. Others are the failure number of different steps of suspend
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to RAM. suspend_stats just lists the last 2 failed devices, error number and
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failed step of suspend.
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